{"id":20617,"date":"2019-09-12T19:47:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T19:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=20617"},"modified":"2019-09-12T19:47:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T19:47:34","slug":"keyamo-commends-efccs-convictions-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=20617","title":{"rendered":"Keyamo Commends EFCC&#8217;s Convictions Record"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <strong>Wilson Uwujaren<\/strong>, Head, Media &amp; Publicity, EFCC<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\nMinister of State for Niger-Delta, Festus Keyamo, SAN on <a href=\"calendar:T2:Thursday, September&#10;12, 2019\">Thursday, September\n12, 2019<\/a> commended the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,\nfor recording the highest number of convictions among law enforcement agencies\nin Nigeria.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keyamo\ngave the commendation at the EFCC Academy, Abuja, while addressing 164 Officers\nof the EFCC Cadet Course 8 currently undergoing orientation and induction at\nthe Academy.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keyamo\ncharged the Cadets to take the fight against corruption seriously, bearing in\nmind the admonition of President Muhammadu Buhari that, &#8220;if we don\u2019t kill\ncorruption, corruption will kill Nigeria&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAnybody\nwho said corruption is not the bane of Nigeria <a href=\"calendar:T5:today\">today<\/a> is not honest.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA\nresearch conducted sometime ago revealed that the amount of money looted as a\nresult of corruption in Nigeria stands at $400billion,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keyamo\nenjoined the Cadets to celebrate their recruitment into the Commission at a\ntime when the EFCC truly enjoys complete independence to execute its mandate.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He blamed interference by\nprevious governments for the slow pace of the fight against corruption in the\npast as several investigations and prosecution of offenders were frustrated.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In\nanother presentation, Femi Gbarufu, Head, Human Resources enlightened the\nCadets on the structure and functions of the Human Resources Unit. He charged\nthem to observe the stipulated work ethics, codes of conduct and the core\nvalues of the Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Wilson Uwujaren, Head, Media &amp; Publicity, EFCC The Minister of State for Niger-Delta, Festus Keyamo, SAN on Thursday, September 12, 2019 commended the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for recording the highest number of convictions among law enforcement agencies in Nigeria.&nbsp; Keyamo gave the commendation at the EFCC Academy, Abuja, while addressing 164 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}